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The Moon on Wednesday, October 31, 1951: Waxing Crescent, 1% lit

Waxing · 1.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 19°

Moon age

0.9days

Moon phase on October 31, 1951Waxing Crescent

Wednesday 31 October 1951368,174 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, October 31, 1951, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 1.3% of its visible face lit, 0.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

1.3%Illumination at noon UTC
0.9 dMoon age
368,174 km228,772 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (20°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 31, 1951 is on Tuesday, November 13, 1951 at 15:52 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 30, 1951 at 13:55 UTC, 1 day earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Tuesday, October 30, 195113:55
First Quarter (after)Tuesday, November 6, 195106:59

The Moon around October 31

More about this date

Wednesday, October 31, 1951 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 30, 1951 to the new moon of November 29, 1951, a cycle of 29.46 days.